At Computex 2006 this year, Gigabyte is displaying the successor to its i-RAM storage device, the GC-RAMDISK.
Gone is the PCI slot power interface and instead Gigabyte has made the
GC-RAMDISK a 5.25” drive bay that relies on power from a Molex connector.

The
Serial ATA interface remains with added compatibility for 300MB/s transfer
rates, though it is unknown if the GC-RAMDISK will support SATA 3.0Gbps features such
as native command queuing -- though with access times so low the only real advantage of the new feature set is the increased data transfer. DDR2 memory is supported this time around instead of
DDR of the previous i-Ram. Supported memory capacity has been increased to up
to 8GB from the previous 4GB which is just enough to make the i-Ram useful as
an OS drive. Since DDR2 memory is not non-volatile (NAND), a battery feeds power to the
memory when the system is off to prevent data loss.

As the GC-RAMDISK is still in development, availability is
still a few months away. Pricing information is unavailable at this time but
expect similar pricing to the previous i-Ram.

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